INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
TRIPLE HOMICIDE
BYERS/MOORE/BRANCH

ON 070193, I WENT TO THE CRIME SCENE TO DETERMINE IF ANY EVIDENCE COULD BE FOUND THAT HAD BEEN OVERLOOKED DURING THE INITIAL SEARCHES OF THE AREA THAT THE ABOVE NOTED HOMICIDE. WHILE AT THE SCENE AND THINKING ABOUT THE CASE SO FAR AND THE STATEMENTS THAT HAD BEEN MADE BY THE DEFENDANT JESSIE MISSKELLEY JR. I DISCOVERED THAT THERE WERE TWO STICKS ON THE SCENE THAT HAD GONE PREVIOUSLY UNDETECTED. IN THE STATEMENT THAT JESSIE HAD GIVEN HE DESCRIBED A STICK THAT HAD BEEN USED BY ONE OF THE CO-DEFENDANTS TO BEAT THE VICTIMS ON THE HEAD WITH. I SEIZED THE STICKS AND BROUGHT THEM TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO BE SENT TO THE CRIME LAB FOR ANALYSIS TO DETERMINE IF THEY COULD HAVE BEEN THE SAME AS JESSIE STATED HAD BEEN USED TO BEAT THE VICTIMS. THE STICKS WERE PLACED IN THE EVIDENCE FILES AND WILL BE SENT TO THE CRIME LAB UNDER NUMBERS E-138 AND E-139.

DETECTIVE B. RIDGE
WEST MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARTMENT